Re: 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 Dual Opteron glitches

[Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 07:59, Daniel Egger wrote:
>
>
> 2) 64 bit kernel vgettimeofday panic: The kernel panics in
>     arch/x64_64/vsyscall.c:169 on boot.
>
>    static int __init vsyscall_init(void)
>    {
>            if ((unsigned long) &vgettimeofday !=
> VSYSCALL_ADDR(__NR_vgettimeofday))
>                    panic("vgettimeofday link addr broken");
>
>    Replacing those panic(s) by printk make the machine boot just fine
>    and also work (seemingly) without any problems under load.
>

This may be all wet but....
>            if ((unsigned long) &vgettimeofday !=
                     ^^^^ this is a 32 bit value
> VSYSCALL_ADDR(__NR_vgettimeofday))
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^ and I think this is a 64 bit value.
>                    panic("vgettimeofday link addr broken");

And elevating an unsigned 32 bit to 64 will not match under any circumstances.

Bet it would work if "(unsigned long)" were "(void *)"